The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

the cemeteries.
The Brazilian Government has
prohibited meetings in favor Of the
abolition of slavery.
Berlin Is the only large German
city that refuses to velocipedists the
freedom Ct the streets.
On the leg of a dead pigeon re-
Gently found on the st. Lawrence
river was a silver pound, inscribed
''9.71."
Many of the principal streets in the
central part Of Paris are haylog their
former stone pavements changed to
wooden ones.
knapp IS rather a small town In
Northern Wisconsin, but it will have
a tocoggan slide l mile long in opera
tion next winter.
TO her litter of three kittens a
Kansas cat added two young rabbits.
later three young raccoons, all Of
which she is nursing deyotedly.
AT the late Medical Congress in
Vienna all the doctors who spoke on
the subject were In favor of crema-
ton as a way of ~disposing of the dead.
"A pair Of rubber hands have been
attached by a Newark On. J.) doctor.
to the wrists of young Walter Alexan-
der, whose hands were cut of by com.
ing in cont ct with the machinery of
the Belleville Rubber Works.
"A large pelican. with a bill as long
as a coal dealer, was captured near
Crete. Nebraska, recently. 1t meas.
ured six feet from tip to tip of wings,
five feet from the tip of Its bill to the
tip Of its tail, and weighed twelve
pounds.
"A hive of bees was found under a
cornlce that was being repaired re-
Gently on a house in Salem, Massa.
chusetts, and after the insects had
been smothered, u store of honey,
amounting to a tub and a half, was
secured.
The discovery of a wild cat in the
vicinity of Quaker Bridge, West
chester County. New York, has relieved
tramps of suspicion that connec.
ted them with extensive disappearances
of poultry belonging to farmers in the
neighborhood.
"A young truckman Of New York
fell asleep while fishing the other day,
n In that condition arose, walked
overheard and was drowned. He was
given to somnambulism, ard is said
before to have had several narrow es-
capes from death.
AN intelligent horse is spoken Of in
the Lynn (Massachusetts) Bee. 1t was
minus a shoe hen stabbed for the
night, but next morning walked off
OF its W will to the blacksmith and
was waiting its turn to be shod when
found by the owner.
Many Ohio farmers are said to
have been caught on promlssory notes
they signed while supposing they
we're only putting their names to
pledges presented by a s~ad-looking
me-, bindin g him not to kill any song
5nds for a year.
"A new treatment for consumption
Is being prescribed by old settlers on
the snake-ridden Shawangunk Noun
in New York, consisting in the
cutting off the head Of a
''rattler" and eating what Is called
the heart" Of the reptile.
Miss Phoebe Couzins, it Is an
nounced from st. Louis, has been ap-
pointed United States Marshal for that
She is a daughtel. of the de-
ceased Marshal, and is said to have d.
rected the executive affairs of the office
for some time past.
"A shower of stones ratified against
a house in Sumpter County, Georgia,
one night last May, it is stated, as
at regular intervals. The
fusilade has been repeated.
sven in the presence Of neighbors. No
explanation has yet been found.
While in Buffalo, consulting an
eminent surgeon as to what should be
lone about having his teeth out IA false
set that he declared he had s~wallowed),
4 jamestown IN. " man received q
despatch stating that his teeth had
beenfound where he had unconsciously
them.
The inspection of meat In Berlin
$ a very important matter. Twelve
Veterinary surgeons are employed to
'tamp 1t before slaughter, and forty
microscopic samplers are continually
in examining the meat ex.
'osed for sale. Besides these 100 ex-
'erts are employed in various duties,
,~wenty-slx of whom are women.
The wife of a Nevada, Missouri.
had ten young chickens. One
lay at noon a hawk bounced down
Upon them and carried off one, but did
lot go far before a lot of crows got
lfter him. The next night at roostlng
lime the lost chicken came home. It
till bears the marks Of the hawk, but
s otherwise all right.
"A Maine woman, who takes pleas
ira in her poultry, has adopted q sim.
DE but excellent method of keeping her
at home. She ties a small .
'orn cob to one leg, allowing it to dan
,le at a distance Of about six inches.
The fowl can scratch and get about
With ease, but, 1t is said, will not at
empt to fly over palings O. squeeze
through a crack.
"A new law that went into force
Is throughout Prussia re.
luires all keepers of restaurants at rail-
way stations OF the third and fourth
to provide a cup of good, hot
Office, without milk or sugar, for 5
about II cents in our
money!, and the same with milk and
ugar for double the price.
The jailer OF the Pueblo county
all, Colorado, permitted one of the
'risoners to play the violin evenings.
The other night the scraping began at
N early hour and was kept up CONTINUE
usly and vigorously until late, when it
eased. In the morning the jailer
snnd that, under cover of the
nusic, four prisoners had sawed off a
ortion of a window casing, worked a
ig stone out of place and escaped.
Otter Belt, one of the greatest of
'omanche chiefs, died in the Indian
territory recently. Five minutes be-
ore his death they held him erect and
lgged him out In his best war cos
ume, They painted him red, set his
var bonnet on his head. tied up his
air In beaver skins, and laid him down
ist as he died. Then his five wives
ook sharp butcher knives, slashed
heir faces with long, deep cuts, cut
in other places, and beat
hair hlaaIfDU hn1iaa a,d OollaI tb1t.